The accident in Toschian, near home. Father Carlo returned in the evening from the pediatric clinic in Padua to give the tragic news to the other children and notify the parish priest. The already fixed prayer appointment turns into a sad commemoration
CESIOMAGGIORE. Dad Carlo returned home to Toschian in the evening, he wanted to personally give his children the news that they would never want to hear, hug them, hug them to face such immense pain together.
“I just talked to him, he told me that Petra is dead,” sighs the parish priest Don Samuel Gallardo after putting down the phone.Last night (Monday 26) the priest should have prayed at the virtual vigil for the healing of the child – 10 years old this year – invested on Saturday morning on the provincial.
The recitation of the rosary via Zoom, already held over the weekend, had already been scheduled for yesterday evening, together with the faithful of groups from various Italian locations of the ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation. Instead, the prayer for Petra was more painful, of suffrage.
Petra Lucca was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the University pediatric clinic in Padua since Saturday morning. The Suem helicopter had flown it and, alerted around 9.15, had landed not far from the point of the investment and had been waiting for a long time to leave. The health workers, there in the street, were trying to revive the little girl, who immediately appeared in very serious condition due to the impact with the Fiat Idea.
He was crossing the road leading to Feltre to go look for his dog, this is the hypothesis that was made to explain his presence along the provincial road, at the beginning of the straight that leads to Soranzen. She had come down from home, a little further upstream in the center of Toschian, to find him. But there, shortly after the half-bend that precedes the straight, she was overwhelmed by the minivan driven, by a tragic twist of fate, by a family acquaintance. A 67-year-old woman living in the area who had previously helped look after Petra’s brothers.
The collision, the car that nails, the desperate driver, the call to 118, the arrival of the Santa Maria del Prato health workers and the helicopter rescue, the carabinieri blocking the road to allow medical personnel to try their best. Then the helicopter turbines that begin to whistle, “Falco” that gets up and flies away in the direction of Padua with Petra on board.
In intensive care at the pediatric clinic in Padua, his condition has always remained critical. But still yesterday afternoon in the village people prayed and hoped.
In the village we prayed for Petra but also for father Carlo Lucca, nurse at the transfusion center of Feltre, and for mother Chiara Turrin, known by all as Doriana, also a nurse but at Dialysis, overwhelmed by a difficult drama to describe. Toschian’s house remained closed and the village continued to hope until the last moment.
“We didn’t ring the death bells, I had already rung them today for another person and there would have been confusion,” the parish priest explained last night. They will play this morning to remember Petra, in Cesio as well as in Soranzen. «And yet we would never want to have to hear them», the priest shakes his head, «for such a small child».